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Life continues to be nuts!!! In the meantime, if you missed it, here's a YouTube video of my introduction for Starship Sofa for their podcast of "Gunfight at the Sugarloaf Pet Food & Taxidermy."

Labels: Podcast Gunfight StarShipSofa Asimov's YouTube

Life has been like John Irving novel. Well, maybe not that dramatic, but very busy. I'm behind on everything. Maybe someday I'll dish about it. In the meantime, StarShipSofa has released "Gunfight" as a podcast narrated by Diane Severson, who strikes just the wry note of humor.

Somebody needs to do this story as a film, that's what I think. It's peppy and action-packed and original. Heck, there are zombie deer! :)

If you haven't already, you can check it out here.

Labels: Podcast Gunfight StarShipSofa Asimov's

Color me happy. I think this is my strongest cover yet. Certainly it's eye-catching, gritty, and wild... And here's the funny part. When I talk about my books in person or online, I like to poke fun at myself and explain that while, yes, of course, they're excellently written and full of moving human drama and real emotion, at the core these novels are also supposed to be fun, so they're full of exploding helicopters and super-cool advanced weapons technology.

Well, apparently Ace thinks so, too. A huge thanks to Judith Murello and Eric Williams, the design team behind the series artwork. They must have read the books! There really is an exploding helicopter in this one...

Feast! Feast your eyes!

Labels: Ace Books, PLAGUE ZONE cover art

"The Niners are set to take the snap. Here comes the ball... It's a fake! It's a fake! The kicker grabs the ball and runs for the strong side of the line! I think he's going to make it!"

That's what the announcer would be saying if this was a football game. I have yet to see cover art from my American publisher, who has the book, but here's some nice, spooky, eye-grabbing cover art from my German publisher, who doesn't have the book. Go figure. Fortunately, the cover makes sense with the storyline. Piper Verlag did ask me what the book is about and clearly they're not messing around. They've got INFEKT slated for February 2010. It's ready to fly. Except for the pages that, you know, go between the covers. We'll translate that stuff soon. :)

Labels: Infekt, Piper Verlag, PLAGUE ZONE